The Legend of Tarzan

Release Date: July 1, 2016

Starring: Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan
Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams
Margot Robbie as Jane Clayton
Christoph Waltz as Leon Rom

Directed by: David Yates

Written by: Adam Cozad, and Craig Brewer based off the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ten years after Tarzan comes to Europe he is called back to the Jungles of Africa for "diplomatic" reasons. The European Government wants Tarzan to go back to Africa to tell the locals there that they are safe and England is not going to over run them in their search for Diamonds. Also, to convince the people of England that the king is not using slaves to find the diamonds either. George Washington Williams does not believe a word of this for a second. The fact that money is being spent for find these jewels, and the country is not going into debt for it doesn't add up. When Tarzan refuses to go Williams shows him that none of what the government is saying adds up and that Tarzan's friends might be in trouble. When she finds that her husband is returning home she insist that she must go with him. Once in Africa they run into their hold friends, human and animals alike, and find that the government in enslaving people to find the treasure they seek. They are so desperate Leon Rom makes a deal with a man who wants Tarzan dead in exchange for the location of the jewels. Rom starts going to great lengths to get Tarzan to do what he wants, even goes as so far to kidnap Jane.

This is one of the movies that I was very excited to go and see this year. It was a different take on the story that we all know. It was really a remake but a continuation of the story. A what happened after the end of what we know, if you will. It was set up to be one of the most breathe taking films of the year.

I was disappointed.

I went in thinking about how amazing this film was going to be and left sad because I was bored most of the time. I mean the beginning was a little slow, but it has to be because we are setting up what has happened in the last ten years. However, when we got down to the parts that was supposed to be thrilling, and adventurous it was very forced and lacking.

It had all of the elements there: a good plot, great actors, marvelous animation, but overall the movie fell flat. It was not one person or thing that made the film fall it was just missing it's charm. The thing that would have made it thee movie I was hoping to see and I think the charm it was missing was the humor.

I know that the whole thing can't be all laughs, this is a more serious Tarzan movie mind you, but it could have been a little more funny. Not lighthearted but funny. If it's not the humor that was missing then I am not sure what it could have been.

The best parts of this film where any scene that had Margot Robbie and Christoph Waltz in them together. They played off each other really well and gave the film the sense of danger that it desperately needed. Samuel L. Jackson was the other best part of the film. He gave the only bits of laughter that the film saw. In fact the best part of the film is when he has to bow down to the gorilla.

If the studio had done some more touches to this film it really would have been the masterpiece I was hoping for.